[–] 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It's a little late now that there's camps, sure. If people had refused harder to put up with shitty democrats in the past, like.. decades past.. then the dems would've lost to past republicans who weren't quite dictators.

In that alternate past where the dems actually lose for being center-right corporatists, they would've had to get some kind of spine or plan or... something.. earlier to protect our public news and education from authoratarian misinformation and maybe prevented this bullshit.

In this current world that we actually have though... I mean you saw we elected Biden, right? And you saw how much good that did -- right? We need somebody on our side with some teeth and rolling over for milquetoast donation collectors is not going to get it for us.

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  • [–] 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    No these are modified. Last time I saw a vehicle like that it was a Mormon family out camping with their 17 kids

    Edit: honestly if you’ve got a giant family and you’re basically a half a busload of people everyplace you go, that’s pretty much the ideal best use case for a private car.

    Same with this picture — if somebody felt the need to pay $$$$$ for extending the truck, they’re probably actually using that space for something productive and not just driving it around empty. I’m way more mad about the incredible waste of every suburban individual having their own heavy duty cargo hauler for daily chores that don’t need it, then I am about modified special-purpose vehicles doing a job.

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  • [–] 39 points 1 year ago*

    OP If you’re really going to do this (questionable imo) then you’d need to find some kind of list that gets updated automatically. Because if you just make fox and OAN suck he’s more likely to find some other, worse thing you never heard of.

    But if you do do this behind his back and he notices, you can pretty much forget about him ever trusting you for anything again. Those are the stakes.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    If we’re restricting the competition to craft beers and wood-fired pizza, Austin is not running at any competitive disadvantage. They will go hard.

    If you want to open the field to, say, west coast fresh variety, with your Cambodian-Somali fusion cuisine and sushi etc, then you have to answer some difficult questions about barbecue as well.

    I am ready for this competition.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    I pulled in late and tired to a random motel 6 in Illinois. Went in to the office with my wife and three small children, talked to the attendant through thick bulletproof glass to get a room. Attendant was very weirdly hesitant.

    Went to the room, found the floor was linoleum tiles that were all peeling up at the edges, doors, doorframes, beds all in bad condition, some seriously weird and disturbing smell we didn’t recognize.

    Came back down to the office and asked for our money back, which is the single solitary time I’ve ever done that at a hotel. The attendant seemed relieved and was very happy to return the money.

    Our kids were really little but they’ve always remembered that and they call it the “nope-tel”

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